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Years ago, I had little use for the daiquiri. I regarded it as a fruity, frothy, adolescent concoction, made for injudicious college drinking and the "specialty cocktail" page at chain restaurants, all too often impregnated with artificial colors and flavors.

In the back seat was Oswaldo Paya, one of Cuba's best-known dissidents, who had championed the idea of a democratic referendum on the nation's future.

Two years later Castro proclaimed the Marxist-Leninist nature of the revolution.

A Cuban student, identified as Luo Xiao by her Chinese name, holds up her calligraphic work of Chinese character "rabbit" at Beijing Language and Culture University in this file photo taken on Feb 1, 2011.

Many Cubans opt for the informal market instead the high prices of the products in hard currency stores.

A local church has received $7,000 to help provide water filtration systems to Cubans.

A local church has received $7,000 to help provide water filtration systems to Cubans.

A Cuban student, identified as Luo Xiao by her Chinese name, holds up her calligraphic work of Chinese character "rabbit" at Beijing Language and Culture University in this file photo taken on Feb 1, 2011.

Many Cubans opt for the informal market instead the high prices of the products in hard currency stores.

The Russian Foreign Ministry Saturday published a list of 12 Americans barred from entering the country after the United States expanded sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.

This might explain why most of you, amigos, have probably never heard of this atrocity against 'Hispanics' attempting to enter the U.S. The Democratic Party's public relations department saw no upside to publicizing You know it's bad when a mainstream media luminary himself admits to mainstream media 'negligence.'

Artificial leaves, trees, and glue comprise the medium for Glenda Len's work Esperanza , featured in SITE Santa Fe's biennial exhibition.

Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Friday blamed the Ukrainian government in Kiev for the downing of a Malaysian Airlines passenger plane.

If you're a fan of this holiday column, you know there is a holiday for just about every occasion under the sun.

Thursday kicked off the first full day of the 12th annual Tales of the Cocktail conference.

"Only the murder of 73 innocent people, many of them teenagers, Cuban athletes traveling in a Cubana airliner, exploded in midair the 6th of October of 1976 by a terrorist bomb, was full of so much sickening hatred, of so much perversion and of so much cynicism afterwards by their material and intellectual authors, as was the crime of July 13, ... (more)

This April 1, 2014 file photo shows students behind a business looking for a Internet signal for their smart phones in Havana, Cuba.

This April 1, 2014 file photo show the headquarters for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington.

"The Cuban exile experience is all about the American story," Commissioner , the son of a Bay of Pigs veteran, said before the 8-3 vote.

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